zwiebel
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This article here from 2000 mentions the improvement grant for Placentia, and that works would begin in Orangethorpe Avenue. That's close to Bob's house, isn't it?
http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jan/25/local/me-57540
I wouldn't have thought works begun then would have carried on until 2009 - it's not as if it's England. The more I think about, the more I think the works going on in Bob's street that week in 2009 were just one-off kerb or surface repairs, and not part of the big programme. Wish we knew for certain though, and I hope LE checked it out at some point.
I can't get over what a homecoming that must have been for Fontelle; press outside, along with two of Bob's daughters, her packages all stacked up waiting to be unpacked, and then no Bob to turn to.
Apart from the obvious reason for it to be distressing, it must have been strange and maybe awkward for her too, for other reasons.
When Mrs Harrod left Carnation Drive, it was her and Bob's home; their private marital refuge. Nobody got in or out without her or Bob's permission. When she returned, his daughters had let themselves inside, changed linens and whatever. Repairs had been made. And two?? daughters were still there.
I suppose Mrs Harrod would have welcomed the support, but you know when there's been a crisis and you just want to hunker down at home for a while, to get some peace and gather yourself.......well, what happened then? Daughters had made themselves at home there, were in their father's house...
Did Mrs Harrod want to say, thanks so much, off you go now, I'll see you tomorrow - and by the way, leave the keys on the kitchen table. Did she feel able? I might have felt strange, as though the daughters were not just welcoming me home, but - by letting themselves in - were showing me it was 'their' territory too. Or even hinting it was just theirs.
I don't know. Maybe Bob had that kind of family life where the children just let themselves in and out whenever, and Mrs Harrod had grown used to it in the time she was there. She certainly looked a little shocked though, in the videos we have of her arrival.
http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jan/25/local/me-57540
I wouldn't have thought works begun then would have carried on until 2009 - it's not as if it's England. The more I think about, the more I think the works going on in Bob's street that week in 2009 were just one-off kerb or surface repairs, and not part of the big programme. Wish we knew for certain though, and I hope LE checked it out at some point.
I can't get over what a homecoming that must have been for Fontelle; press outside, along with two of Bob's daughters, her packages all stacked up waiting to be unpacked, and then no Bob to turn to.
Apart from the obvious reason for it to be distressing, it must have been strange and maybe awkward for her too, for other reasons.
When Mrs Harrod left Carnation Drive, it was her and Bob's home; their private marital refuge. Nobody got in or out without her or Bob's permission. When she returned, his daughters had let themselves inside, changed linens and whatever. Repairs had been made. And two?? daughters were still there.
I suppose Mrs Harrod would have welcomed the support, but you know when there's been a crisis and you just want to hunker down at home for a while, to get some peace and gather yourself.......well, what happened then? Daughters had made themselves at home there, were in their father's house...
Did Mrs Harrod want to say, thanks so much, off you go now, I'll see you tomorrow - and by the way, leave the keys on the kitchen table. Did she feel able? I might have felt strange, as though the daughters were not just welcoming me home, but - by letting themselves in - were showing me it was 'their' territory too. Or even hinting it was just theirs.
I don't know. Maybe Bob had that kind of family life where the children just let themselves in and out whenever, and Mrs Harrod had grown used to it in the time she was there. She certainly looked a little shocked though, in the videos we have of her arrival.